Quebec's Highways

[Richard3]

There was another protest against A-20 extension at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges from what I read on these French articles suggesting instead improving PQ-132.
https://www.infodimanche.com/actualites/actualite/608431/une-mobilisation-contre-lautoroute-20-a-notre-dame-des-neiges
https://www.msn.com/fr-ca/actualites/quebec-canada/les-opposants-au-prolongement-de-l-a-20-se-font-encore-entendre/ar-BB1lbAgV

They should have a chat with the folks who can't stand 18-wheels trucks anymore.
https://www.msn.com/fr-ca/actualites/est-du-quebec/exc%C3%A9d%C3%A9s-par-le-bruit-des-citoyens-r%C3%A9clament-lautoroute-20-%C3%A0-saint-fabien/ar-AA1eYxio

It's always the same thing.

A new highway is like a bridge; before building it, nobody wants it, but once built, everybody takes it.

I made a run to Mont-Joli some days ago, and I can certify here that it would be a lot safer run if it was done on a divided four-lane freeway. I made my way to Mont-Joli in early morning (I reached my customer at 7:10 AM), and it was OK, but my return was a bit later, and if no traffic jams were noted, it was quite heavier than in the morning. And the tourist period is not begun yet.

The MTQ can put some signage for tourists (the blue signs are great for that), or may build exits between villages instead of connecting them directly, in order to make some touristic circuits, and help storekeepers to stay alive, but all the heavy traffic will definitely benefit of a brand new A-20 in this area.

The best way to secure a route is by separating local/tourist traffic from the transiting one, and the best way to do so is to built a new freeway a bit away from homes and villages. The local population will gain more quality of living by removing all transiting trucks from local roads, like the 132.

But on the other hand, with an 11-billion$ deficit in the last Quebec provincial budget, I think we must be patient.

[Great Lakes Roads]

Meanwhile in Quebec:

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/video/c2910630-should-quebec-increase-speed-limits-on-highways-

They are happy with the 100 km/h speed limit with no plans to raise it to 110 km/h.

[LilianaUwU]

They are happy with the 100 km/h speed limit with no plans to raise it to 110 km/h.

Of course they are, they can rack up more speeding tickets that way.

[vdeane]

At this point, I think we can comfortably say that Québec has the lowest speed limits in all of Canada (the Oregon of the North, I suppose, although even Oregon has 70 now).  Didn't the PQ propose raising the limit to 120 in the last election?

[oscar]

^ Yukon and NWT max out at 90km/h, and Nunavut's roads (the few it has are all locally-maintained, except in territorial parks) even less. AFAIK (haven't been there lately), in Newfoundland the speed limits tend to be 10km/h lower than for comparable highways in Quebec.

[froggie]

^ Yukon and NWT max out at 90km/h, and Nunavut's roads (the few it has are all locally-maintained, except in territorial parks) even less. AFAIK (haven't been there lately), in Newfoundland the speed limits tend to be 10km/h lower than for comparable highways in Quebec.

A quick check of GMSV along various rural portions of TCH-1 in Newfoundland shows 100km/h speed limits, as did NL-2 west of TCH-1 and NL-70 coming off TCH-1.  I did not check lower-level roads.

[vdeane]

^ Yukon and NWT max out at 90km/h, and Nunavut's roads (the few it has are all locally-maintained, except in territorial parks) even less. AFAIK (haven't been there lately), in Newfoundland the speed limits tend to be 10km/h lower than for comparable highways in Quebec.

None of the territories have freeways, and 90 matches the maximum MTQ will post on anything that isn't an autoroute or QC 175 between Québec and Saguenay.  And Nunavut doesn't have long-distance rural mileage.